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Autumn is the best time to get out and about in Western Australia; the weather is mild with sunny days and light winds, it is still warm enough to go for a swim and you can have campfires!
With this in mind the team at Nature Play WA have come up with eight of their favourite Autumn activities and locations, we have split them evenly over regional WA and the metropolitan area because the April school holidays have long been a favourite for visiting relatives and friends. Read more…

Life has a way of tying the shoelaces of our ideas. Or is it just me? It trips grand notions of how things should be with messy little knots of how things are. But sometimes, just sometimes, life agrees with us. And so it was for Nature Play last weekend. Read more…

Our Passports and Family Nature Clubs Manager Gy Tabeshfar and her family were guests of BIG4 Peppermint Park in Busselton, visiting in December for the launch of their new nature play space. Here's Gy's write up of her trip! Read more…

Growing succulents is super easy. You can literally break a leaf off the right plant, leave it on the dirt and a month later there is a plant growing! Part "joy that I can grow plants so successfully", part "money saving operation", I have started a succulent nursery at home. It’s a great little project for kids to get involved with because it is so easy, they grow quickly and the success rate is high. Read more…

Christmas is in the post and the two problems pressing their way to the front of your queue right now are that your kids are bored and you can’t bring yourself to buy another plastic Rudolph Christmas with the LED nose, or more fake snow in a can for the Christmas tree that should have been up four days ago. But never fear, Nature Play WA is here to solve your pre-Christmas woes. Read more…